Luke 8:26-39 The other day, I walked the dog in my neighborhood on a morning that was just right. It wasn’t too hot and it wasn’t too cold. It was just right. The sun was warm on my skin, the birds were singing, flowers were blooming. And then, I saw him: a thin man in…
By Karen Kreider Yoder FMCSF’s Green Team gave this “Earth Moment” on June 2, 2019. If we cannot acknowledge the problem and mourn, we cannot change our actions and heal the Earth. When I was a young girl in the 1960s, humans began producing plastic. Since then, our plastic use has grown steadily. From 2000…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Pentecost Sunday, Acts 2:1-21 There is so much going on in this text that it’s hard to know where to start this sermon: with the violent wind or flames of the Spirit or people speaking in other languages or the prophetic words from Joel, with their apocalyptic imagery… So I will…
Acts 16:16-34 I’m reading a book in which the author, Cheryl Strayed, talks about working with poor, white middle school girls who were deemed not just “high risk” but “highest risk” by the school they attended. These girls had had the roughest of lives before they were even technically teenagers. Poverty, incarceration, missing or drugged-out…
By Jim Musselman FMCSF’s “Green Team” gave this “Earth Moment” on Sunday, May 19. Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old high school student who lives in Sweden. She is a climate activist who has organized an international school strike to fight climate change. Greta gave a speech about climate in London on April 23rd. Here are…
By Sheri Hostetler Psalm 23, Acts 9:36-43 Our story from Acts takes place in Joppa, a coastal town about 35 miles west of Jerusalem. It is now a suburb of Tel Aviv. Dorcas, or Tabitha (the Hebrew version of her name) — actually, I’m going to call her Tabitha because I can’t get this middl-school…
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